Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1830

Knowledge, even, God's own attribute and delight and mean, I fear it is but the cock's pearl when it is in a spirit which is not united to the great spirit, ^antum…

"^elle profonde philosophie" says De Geran- do,' "ne supposent pas les legislations de Lycurgue et de Solon !" A specimen, it seems to me, had I found it elsewhere,…

"The greater God is, the greater we are. Homer was not grand in making his gods so mean." Aunt Mary.

We are, by dint of self-command on one hand and omniscience on the other, as if a dead wall were built on one side of our plot of ground, and on the other it was…

Read with admiration and delight Mr. Web- ster's noble speech in answer to Hayne. What consciousness of political rectitude, and what con- fidence in his…

Noah Ripley, the good deacon, is himself an affecting argument for the immortality of the soul.

Conversion from a moral to a religious char- acter is like day after twilight. The orb of the earth is lighted brighter and brighter as it turns, until at last…

. . . Milton,Bacon,Bunyan,Scougal, Herbert, Montesquieu : these are names of good men, but what dissimilar images do they suggest to the soul. Now this is not the…

Don't say that qualities are so radical in us that the fickle man can never persevere, let him try as he will, nor the selfish man ever distrib- ute ; for on the…